WarRoom Battleground EP 750： 250th Anniversary Of The Battle Of Lexington And Concord
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Patrick K. O'Donnell is a great combat historian, author, and historian of the American Revolution. He has been a member of the Sons of Liberty for over 200 years and is one of the most well-known and respected historians of the revolution.
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this is the primal scream of a dying regime pray for our enemies because we're going to
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medieval on these people here's not got a free shot all these networks lying about the people
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the people have had a belly full of it i know you don't like hearing that i know you try to do
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everything in the world to stop that but you're not going to stop it it's going to happen and
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where do people like that go to share the big line mega media i wish in my soul i wish that any of
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these people had a conscience ask yourself what is my task and what is my purpose if that answer
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is to save my country this country will be saved war room here's your host stephen k band
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okay friday 18 april year of our lord uh 2025 uh good friday also the eve of the 250th
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uh commemoration anniversary of uh lexington and concord and of course tonight late tonight the
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midnight ride of uh of paul revere who's joined us as joins us on many of these occasions is a great
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combat historian patrick k o'donnell first patrick uh welcome back uh long time no see uh loving
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audience loves love audience loves to have you on um first of all i just want to even start off
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where do where do people go and get all your writings because every time we we have you on
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people go and they always come back to me and say we'd love patrick's books he's got such a breadth
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of you know world war ii korea the iraq war uh all the way back to the revolution you kind of cover
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everything um i want to make sure people get they like you so much you get invited to all these
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maga commemorations and and i just get feedback i just get feedback all the time and we have uh you
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know every book signing i've had in the last month we've had about 400 people go it's been amazing
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and a lot of members of the posse i've had a chance it was an honor to meet many people
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um my books you can get in any bookstore they're best-selling books barnes and noble in particular
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they usually put them up right up in the front the unvanquished being the civil war book the latest
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the indispensables being the one before that on the american revolution and lexington and concord
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what we're talking about tonight and reveres ride all of those things uh patrick k o'donnell.com
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is my website and then at combat historian on x and getter is where you can go you you have you
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spec you know you specialize in going back and doing archival work uh looking at all the writings
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particularly as you can't do you you started in doing um oral histories of uh the greatest generation
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because you had the idea hey if i don't do this if somebody doesn't do it systematically it's going
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to be lost to to history your older uh books obviously the inability to interview you do
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amazing archival work so talk to us why is this so important and we've made such a big deal about it
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why the shot heard around the world tomorrow in lexington and concord and starts tonight
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really with paul revere set the table for us what was going on and and why were these forces brought
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together them are so explosive that really did change the direction not just of american history
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but of world history this is our most important history steve this is the story about our founding
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it's about who we are as americans it's a story about regular people um you know using their personal
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agency to change the world the founding generation changes the world and it begins in many ways
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the revolution begins in 1768 with the stamp act and you know fighting against the crown realizing
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that there's dependency for the crown's goods they're constantly bombarding us at this time with uh you
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know cheap imports they stand up against the stamp debt the stamp act the crown backs off but it's
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really kind of one atrocity after another everything from impressment of sailors i mean for instance i wrote
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a book called the indispensables on the marble headers these are fishermen and traders they go out with
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their boats all of a sudden the crown pulls up with a navy ship and it's not a friendly meeting they're
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there to impress people on board and it's a uh it's kidnapping for life with the royal navy uh there's those
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incidents there's taxes there's a revolution that that is spawned in 1773 and 74 where new ideas are
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formed about freedom and liberty and this is groundbreaking stuff steve that is the basis of
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who we are as americans and so hang on but hang on hang on for a second hang on a second you got
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in 1773 and 1774 in the preamble of this why do you say the new new ideas these are essentially
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englishmen or they're governed even if people come over from other places they're governed as a colony
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of the of the british crown and englishmen have certain rights that they have fought for and have
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you know representation of parliament the crown is not it is a constitutional monarchy now
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right now it's not a it's not like henry vIII they just do what they wanted um so what are the
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ideas in 1773 and 1774 that start to come up it's the ideas of of individual freedom and liberty but also
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that they were not being represented property properly in parliament they didn't have a say
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even though they were being taxed but there's a lot of things that are going on uh where you know
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they're they're being forced to house british soldiers for instance there's a judge issue and
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this is a really interesting one they were being you know throughout the colonies for over 100 years or
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more we were able to elect our own judges and put them in in place what was going on in 74
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was the crown was installing their own judges and this is a major problem and then there's another
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thing that you know that the the boston tea party takes place and what happens is it's collective
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punishment for everyone that's in boston they shut down the port thousands are thrown out of work
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uh they're not able to trade and uh you know this collectively royals everything and uh it's just one
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step after another but the real trigger is on september 1st 1774 at a place called somerville
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which is in cambridge they had a powder magazine and gage knew that if he was able to take the gunpowder
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away from the americans that was thomas that was that was thomas gage uh the uh the british general right
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that's exactly right and i think this is another thing britain the great britain basically has a
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royal governor but the governors are overwhelmed so britain sends essentially an expeditionary force
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because it's a colony they send an expeditionary force of british regulars and at the time the
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british regulars is is a small army but a highly professional army not a militia right these are pretty
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hardened guys eventually they'll be deployed into many places this is the army that that breaks uh napoleon
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later right in 18 uh uh what in 1812 uh but this is a pretty tough lot of these are pretty hard
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they come from ireland they come from northern ireland they come from scotland come from england
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and just like the royal navy was the dregs of society but some of the best fighting men in the world
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these are pretty hard folks right these are these are these are i mean wellington used to call
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wellington called his army the scum of the earth right but some of the greatest fighters
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these are really tough guys and experience in most cases they have at least 10 years of experience
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on average uh that had been in combat so these guys know what they're doing they're well trained
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they're very well disciplined engaged senses remember i talked about dependency dependency at this time was
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gunpowder could fight all you know you could if you don't have gunpowder it doesn't matter how many
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guns you have you're defenseless and they recognize this because what happened is after the french and
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indian war the british deliberately took our gunpowder industry away but it's also market-driven forces
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because it was cheaper to outsource it to india at the time so the the united states or i should say
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the colonies had no organ organic production of powder but in the in the british went after it that was
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the killing thing hang on hang on i want to make sure the audience understands this it's the reason the
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second amendment was so important to people at that time let's go back to here they the brit the brits
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were not were the empire they set up in the system well no they're but they're smart they look they're
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building a global empire from an island right at the same time keeping europe at bay so you got to be
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tough you got to be hard you got to think ahead and they realized that hey the colonies made up a bunch
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of englishmen who were kind of surly right americans have always bitching about their rights hey i got my
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rights as a free man they they understood they what they didn't want them to do is have rights tied with
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weapons and gunpowder that was and we see that tomorrow play out so that's why gunpowder was so
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important weapons are so important to go to an arsenal keep whatever you do keep these americans
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away from firearms because this is a this is a group with a chip on their shoulder they've got an
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attitude um and uh and and we don't like it we like we want order we don't want uh we don't want
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them telling us what to do essentially that's why september your your point's brilliant the the
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september 1st 17 it was a 70 75 no it's before this is 1774 yeah and then what you have is a series
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of these surgical raids that take place there's another one that takes place at fort william and
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where the first shots arguably of the revolutionary war are fired and a man is wounded a british provisional
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troop is wounded but they they seize the the americans actually seize the gunpowder fort william and
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which is in um new hampshire uh and then there's another uh raid at salem and it's it goes on and
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on and on until lexington and concord and it's a traitor within the patriot ranks a guy by the name
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of benjamin church who's one of the he's on the highest councils in the um in the patriot ranks they
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have a series of a council of safety a council of supply and church is gage's best spy he tells
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gage exactly where all the weapons there's several cannons that are being hidden there's musket balls
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there's powder they're being stashed in concord and other farms nearby and gage decides to mount a raid
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beginning on april 18th they sail out of fort william which is in boston harbor 750 men
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under a guy by the name of smith and these are the elite troops within the british army they're royal
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marines and light infantry and they're assembled on boats they sail in and they come in and then they
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start to march um you know towards lexington and concord well hang on for a second let's go back to the
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makeup uh in the structure of gage's expeditionary force that they essentially come to impose
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essentially some form of martial law on the colonists in boston and boston was really where this
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the revolutionary spirit you had hancock you had adams you had that that would be sam adams not john
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adams you you had a uh a lot of people stirring the pot here right and engage his expeditionary force
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give me the structure of that expeditionary force there's about 3 000 men that are in boston and then
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there's another several a couple thousand in canada and in south carolina and most of these men are you
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know regular very disciplined trained troops 10 15 years experience in many cases a lot of the troops
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are the light infantry these are this is sort of an invention from the french and indian war where they
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learn how to fight as uh in sort of a native american fashion where it's not necessarily linear
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tactics on the european battlefield but they they they have these lighter troops that are able to
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maneuver and and work quicker on the battlefield and it's this this is the force that is uh put together
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for this raid um to the the british's disadvantage many of these men had never actually fought as an entire
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unit together they took multiple companies from several regiments and put them together for this
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this force that smith was leading to seize the uh the gunpowder cannon and others before we get to
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before we get to the actual movement of the troops in the going what was it about paul revere and people
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knew something it's not that they were on a hair trigger but this was all building up to something
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right they understood that the brits that the british wanted to make sure that they they disarmed
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the colonists they didn't want the colonists to have weapons and they didn't want them to have
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gunpowder they knew that that would lead to uh a bigger insurrection correct so this was all out there you
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had these spies you had people turning in colonists you had them turning in plans how does paul revere
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how does the night before the eve why does it all come together on the 18th of april and then leading
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into the confrontation we see on the next day paul revere is a key member of the sons of liberty
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he's a key member of some of the councils that i mentioned he's one of the leading fellows but he's
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also built sort of this alarm system uh you know one if by land to it by sea where the um how the british
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are going to attack the supplies and uh there's this you know series of the the lantern in the in the in
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the church tower uh and then he rides out you know beginning around 11 o'clock on the 18th and they start to
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they start to to to um to move towards concord and it meanwhile the the head the leadership of the
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patriots are all assembled that night they're meeting at the black force tavern in arlington
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virginia arlington massachusetts i'm sorry uh and then also near near concord itself and it's revere that
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uh that that basically alarms them and lets them know what that the british are coming
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um tell me tell me about the sons of liberty what what is what is uh what is the sons of liberty uh
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why is it such a controversial group why haven't the british uh what were the british trying to do
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to infiltrate or to shut it down the sons of liberty are you know they are formed during the uh the years
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of the stamp act in the late 18 17 60s and this is to to fight british taxation and this includes some of
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the key members such as um samuel adams who's considered a real rabble rouser but he's a beacon
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in many ways a real thought leader of the time there are others uh john adams um elbridge gary from the
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the um the marble head uh regiment for instance future congressman and later vice president many
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of these men are are sons of liberty this is kind of the core um group of resistance members if you
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will it starts at the stamp act and it continues to to flourish and expand uh right before the
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the beginning of the american revolutionary war and they set up in many ways these core members
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of the sons of liberty will set up the shadow government of these different committees of
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safety committees of correspondence submit committee of supplies uh where they they start to to prepare
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in the event that the british you know attempt to disarm them and kill them
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um how the committees of correspondence because we've often told the war room posse
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that in particularly being force multipliers and information warfare you know frontline folks
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that are sharing this information that you're you're analogous to the committees of correspondence
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and the sons of liberty talk to me about the committees of correspondence and how they interact
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with people like the uh the sons of liberty they form various um committees that meet these are individuals
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that are trusted individuals but in most you know in most cases they are considered trusted individuals
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but you have what i think most people don't realize is that not everybody was on board with the
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american revolution at the time i mean the the typical analogy is that there was one third patriots one
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third and decided and then one third that were loyalists it's hard to really break down those numbers
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but what you have is an america the first american civil war that is raging at the time of 1774 and 1775
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where the two camps are divided and uh military defeats as well as atrocities on the battlefield will shape
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the ebb and flow of where those camps move and people move from one camp to another
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and it's it's really quite a miracle that the american revolution succeeded and against the greatest empire
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at the time and it's it's really a story about grit it's about a story about an idea the idea of america of
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freedom and liberty which is stronger than anything that you can have really on the battlefield and it's
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that idea that would persist and pervade for for for you know over eight years and then longer and then
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change the entire world as a result so when you say the one-third one-third one-third and people
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actually use the number three percent actually did any fighting but what was it in the in the lead up
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because clearly two-thirds of the people are not with you and that's why can you say the worm all the
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time hey if it starts out and the odds are long you'll change the odds if you're just determined
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so essentially in in the in the in the nicest swath you can take it two-thirds of the people were not
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with the patriots and and quite frankly they thought of the patriots of being radical and and and and
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out of step and and dangerous because they were drawing america into a confrontation with the british
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crown one-third of the people were tories they supported the british crown and didn't think anything
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would didn't think the british crown was doing anything actually wrong in fact if they were doing
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anything wrong it was causing the instigation of people like sam adams and john hancock and others
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and sam adams and john hancock were kind of also people that are up against the monopolies that the
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crown had given monopolistic power to and that would be the british east india company these guys i don't
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want to call them smugglers but the whole confrontation on the tea party etc was a confrontation not so much
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with the british crown or as much with the british east india company which had monopolistic powers for
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trade in in the colonies but why was it in your thought that given all the intellectuals we had
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given the committees and correspondence and enough people like the war room posse
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still two-thirds of the people approximately were not convinced it was worth taking the fact it was
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dangerous the people in the middle were just sitting there going hey we don't want any part of this we're
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going to see which side wins but the tories there were one-third that were pretty adamantly opposed to
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this uh patrick o'donnell yeah these loyalists were very determined and that's that is a you know this
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is not the story of the oil paintings that we uh you know we all see there's a much richer deeper
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more nuanced story um of the the you know the various it's a very vicious and violent war
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as it unfolds but what you see is just a determination um of a small group of people in many cases like you
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said um three percent probably more than that but not too many more would actually do the the actual
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fighting and be around they were just persistent their grit um and then it was a situation where
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people saw their lives really in danger and at risk and they saw what the crown had done to other
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you know any other any other insurgency or force the crown went against it it always it destroyed or
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um paul revere how does he get tipped off how does tonight is the night you know the midnight ride
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of paul revere made famous by the the poem that every american school kid at one point in time had to
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know uh how does he flow into this as sons of liberty what is he going to be a uh is he a spy
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is he somebody that's part of the militia's intelligence a group why does he come in and
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why is his ride that triggers everything so important he has a number of people that he are
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that are informants and inform him and and he is aware that smith's force is assembling and he sets
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about to alarm the entire countryside they have a an alarm system that's already set up you know the
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lanterns in the in the uh church tower and then pretty much as soon as he rides out he alarms every
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house that he encounters and he tells it basically tells everyone to start ringing the town bell church
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bells anything to let people know that the regulars are on the move and they he does an amazing job
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but as he's riding gage wisely puts out um numerous cavalry patrols to try to to round up men like paul
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revere and he and another guy by the name of dawes and prescott later joins them they're rounded up
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the british actually um these cavalry patrols they run into them and and revere is captured um initially
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and the the you know the british officer uh comes up to him and says you know sir may i have your
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your name i'm craving your name and he and revere and revere just says my name is paul revere just like
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that and they like the officer's jaw literally drops because this is the man that he's hunting
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and revere um they put a gun to his head and he says there's no need for that i will just tell you
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the truth and he tells them more details about the expedition and then these men actually know because
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they they their cover story is they're just rounding up british deserters and he says to them look within a
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matter of minutes you will be surrounded by thousands of my uh fellow countrymen and your
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lives will be the ones that are in great danger and you know this goes on for you know several minutes
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he tries to tie them up because he knows that john hancock and other and joseph warren other members of the
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patriot leadership are not far down the road and he wants to do everything he can to delay these men
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and the the column from reaching them so they engage in some conversation but shots ring out
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and uh this british cavalry this decides to this basically ditch their prisoners they take their
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mounts and then they they make them walk on foot and uh revere and two of the other men make their way
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through a swamp through a sort of a uh a shortcut and they get to to to hancock and joseph warren
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before the main column is arriving joseph warren that's a famous name why don't we hang on uh right
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there we're going to ask uh patrick k o'donnell the question he's going to answer the other side
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and we're going to talk about the day of lexington concord but what what is the uh what was the signal
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one if by land two if by sea we're gonna be back in a moment with patrick k o'donnell to get an
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okay patrick k o'donnell one if by land two if by sea what's my answer
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they come by sea and they start that was the warning that was the warning you're going to have
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lights up in the church tower that it'd be one light if they were coming by sea and two if they
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were coming by land why would they come by sea they were right there in boston i thought
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they they wanted to to obtain a a slight element of surprise by coming by sea they thought they could
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kind of distract things and then um also cut off a few a little bit of their uh their march too
00:31:59.440
they make it a little bit shorter so they wouldn't have to go right through uh the heart of of boston
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they come up they actually landed at this loyalist farm um outside of cambridge and then they start to
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march and they're marching first they march through arlington and then they march towards lexington
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and green and it's at 2 a.m that john parker and about 70 of his militia are out at lexington green
00:32:29.680
because they hear paul revere's alarm bells so paul revere's paul revere starts before midnight
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right by 2 a.m they've already got the by 2 a.m the the the colonists already know something they're
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coming so they muster at lexington they muster at lexington common at 2 a.m wow they do and this is
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important because it's the it's it's it's sort of the the the green is near the crucial crossroads
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which is on the way towards concord they muster there and it's here that they meet you know this
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this long kind of centipede of scarlet so hang on just hundreds for the audience to understand they're
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going they're going to the armory at concord lexington just has to be on the route to go there correct
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it's correct it's not even an armory steve this is just a bunch of houses farms that have
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cached uh supplies military supplies of gunpowder many of the it's the marble headers the indispensables
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that have that have that have that have obtained it from portugal and spain there are several actual
00:33:42.800
cannons uh trunnions with for the canyons and then there's uh muskets and musket balls tens of
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thousands of them engages men are there to surgically remove them they're not there to plunder anybody's
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houses or anything else at least that's in the orders doesn't work out that way they're just
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surgically remove the supplies and get out but what happens is the the countryside is alarmed they then run
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into parker's men and they're told to disperse uh parker says hang on hold hang on they get to
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parker and his men rally at 2 a.m by dawn the british and this is a 3 000 man expeditionary force
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british regulars correct this is a force of 750 british regulars specifically the light infantry
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yep and the royal marines this is a royal marines force pick force and and pretty tough hombres they
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get to what around five six and what time they actually arrive at lexington at the commons where
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parker's sometime around two to three a.m that they arrive and then they are told to disperse
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and uh you know parker says his famous words stand your ground um you know the men some of the men are
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you know questioning there's only 70 of us and there's this long column of 750 british regulars a
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number of words are exchanged he tells his men to not fire unless fired upon and then he says the
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uh the famous words but if if you want a war let it begin here and then what happens is a shot rings
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out and we don't know to this day who fired the first shot and at that point the british regulars
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begin to fire and start to massacre many of uh parker's men they fire back but if parker's
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why don't we get the brood of the front of it why don't we know why don't we know uh who actually
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fired the first shot why is it still why is it still a debate in history of who actually fired the
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first one because you've got just hundreds of people and individuals and they they still don't
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know exactly who fired that first shot isn't it clearly isn't it patrick you've patrick you've
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gone to the archives isn't it pretty clear it's one of the militia guys they're they're a little
00:36:22.240
nervous you got british regulars they're telling you to get the hell out of the way disperse
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parker and a handful of these guys don't do it some column some guys do disperse they stand right
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there somebody's itchy i'm not willing to say that because here's why steve because literally within
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hours from this there's another engagement at concord bridge where the exact same scenario i
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know takes place but hang on hang on they're british regulars fire don't get ahead of i'm
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don't get ahead of the wagon train here i'm gonna get to concord in a second
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was an order given who is the field officer in charge of the 750 they are adamant that they gave
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no order to fire smith that smith was adamant because they had a board of inquiry about this
00:37:08.880
he was adamant he never gave an order to fire correct correct but what happens is british
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regular are british regulars in the business of firing unless they get a direct order because they
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got a whole thing that they line up boom it's just like anybody else they can you can when you got your
00:37:25.200
hands near the trigger it's possible so you don't know but i mean it's it's quite possible my money's
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my money's on a my money's on a column i'll get to this this is where the i may be going down but
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i'm taking one of these guys out with me do what the founders knew the information war and i'll get
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to the narrative in a bit okay go so so so what happens after what happens after the shoot so it's a
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melee then what happens and how do we get to concord then it's open season on the colonists
00:37:58.960
and many of uh parker's men are are either mortally wounded or killed the british actually
00:38:05.920
run bayonets through multiple men um smith and pickhorn uh they he starts to wave his sword in
00:38:14.560
the air to cease fire he has to literally he loses control of his men steve that's a very important
00:38:21.200
point you you were just making the point of how disciplined these british regulars were he lost
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control of them there that night and these men started to to to basically fire at will
00:38:34.560
and they were bayoneting uh they have to literally go into the melee order everybody to cease
00:38:40.400
fire what happens then is through some of the remaining americans then disperse into the hills
00:38:46.640
and the and smith then continues his original mission which is destroy the supplies at concord but
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his officers around him many seasoned officers say look it's madness to continue the americans are
00:39:03.360
alerted the entire countryside they saw what happened during the somerville powder alarm literally 10 000
00:39:10.480
people descended upon boston common they're now alarmed for their they're they're worried about
00:39:17.040
their lives but smith says i have my orders and he continues to towards concord so they marched
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toward concord with his other officers saying hey we're going to get chewed up here because this is
00:39:29.360
big time they didn't realize the level of chew so the ward's out now and this is where the
00:39:35.920
militia are coming walk and get they get to con they come up on concord bridge they have to cross
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concord bridge to get to the farmhouses where the arsenals are correct or the weapons correct that's
00:39:46.480
where the weapons are stored yeah what happens next is is they come upon the place that they feel that
00:39:52.560
most of the weapons are stored which is the tavern in concord smith and several of his officers then
00:39:59.200
storm the tavern the doors lock they break it down storm in and then they put a pistol to the owner
00:40:06.240
and tell him and ask him where are the cannons hidden and the guy initially will refuses to talk
00:40:13.200
and he says i'll blow your brains out if i if you don't talk they then he then the tavern owner then
00:40:18.880
leads them to four buried cannons they're 24 pounders they unearth them and then they spike the guns and
00:40:26.080
then they start to search the town for any other weapons and supplies and what happens is they start to
00:40:32.320
build a bonfire in the middle of the town to start burning all this stuff what happens next it's kind
00:40:37.520
of interesting the the fire catches on a a townhouse nearby and a bizarre scene takes place the british
00:40:47.040
soldiers and the americans that are in in concord itself literally form a bucket brigade and try to put
00:40:52.960
out the fire but meanwhile parker's men and others are surrounding the town near in the nearby hills
00:41:00.560
and see that they they believe the town is being burned to the ground so they then mass near the
00:41:07.280
bridge and demand um you know the fire be put out and everything else is they they don't know really
00:41:15.200
what's going on but at this time british soldiers are then taking whatever they can find which is not
00:41:20.320
much because revere and other patriot leaders had warned them days earlier that these supplies might
00:41:27.440
be raided so they've moved a lot of this stuff into the surrounding fields they buried it i mean there's
00:41:34.240
one great story where the guy that's the the leader uh barrett who's a leader near concord bridge his his
00:41:42.080
farm is two miles away from concord town center his farm is raided but he uh days before with hundreds
00:41:51.200
of patriots had literally cleaned out the entire area and then the morning before that they literally
00:41:56.720
clouded the field and they were putting muskets down as they were you know as they created a a furrow
00:42:03.280
to to cover things and they found you know very little uh supplies but as this is going on the
00:42:10.720
militia uh mass at the bridge along with the regulars and it's here that the famous shot round heard
00:42:18.400
around the world takes place the british tell the militia to disperse um barrett basically says
00:42:25.120
to stand your ground and what happens next is that the british regulars fire the first shots two shots
00:42:32.480
are fired um by british regulars they open fire and what happens is the americans stand their ground
00:42:41.360
and what's it's really remarkable is that these seasoned elite troops begin to break and they
00:42:48.160
start to fall back from the bridge i want to repeat that this was so shocking it was shocking in
00:42:54.960
the field reports they sent later of course they get slaughtered on the way back but right there in
00:43:00.080
front of one of the toughest armies in europe the americans who are basically a group of farmers and
00:43:05.760
mechanics refuse to break at concord bridge right and actually break the british ranks
00:43:12.400
they do they start to waver smith then realizes uh what happens is that they they break and then
00:43:19.600
there's a dispersion from both sides uh that takes place and smith then resumes his march back to boston
00:43:28.400
they are really at this point running and marching for their lives because they realize the entire
00:43:34.080
countryside is alarmed um and and there are there are thousands of militiamen in the surrounding hills
00:43:43.280
and they are they're flanking the road as the british march and they they encounter at one of the angles
00:43:51.680
they encounter john parker it's called parker's revenge uh at one of the hills they uh the british
00:43:58.240
light infantry a storm the hill they disperse the men only to realize that there's another hill filled
00:44:04.800
with hundreds of americans and then they just continue this long march and bloody march down
00:44:11.440
from from the foot hang on from the foot of concord bridge back to safety back to cambridge
00:44:18.160
which is boston boston boston back to boston is how many miles roughly uh we're talking uh uh about
00:44:28.560
15 12 miles or so it's a long road you've got militia you've got militia behind every rock and tree
00:44:34.880
they've got to go back this elite force of 750 that goes out basically at midnight to get to the arsenal
00:44:41.520
or at concord or the houses at concord they have the weapons 750 they're under complete onslaught for
00:44:47.600
hours in the withdrawal and folks if you want to think about it this is a 250 years ago this is
00:44:54.480
black hawk down you're surrounded by people who don't want you to be there right there was mogadishu
00:45:01.680
right in the i guess the 1990s here it's lexington and concord uh in outside of boston but how many
00:45:08.960
casualties do they take of that elite force of 750 by the time they actually get back to boston
00:45:14.160
they take uh scores of casualty killed and wounded and uh you know we also sustain a number of
00:45:22.080
casualties it's one of my family members amos mills who's actually killed on on near the road
00:45:28.640
the uh as the british continue to push forward though just literally militia just surround you know
00:45:35.120
swarms in from all sides the light infantry kind of does flanking maneuvers where they charge out
00:45:43.280
and and then you know stabilize things as the the main line continues to move forward and they did a
00:45:48.560
you know really a remarkable job trying to get out making their way out um it's near arlington that
00:45:56.720
um they have some of the toughest fighting in there's a number of of homes that are still there
00:46:05.120
the russell house for instance was a saw a slaughterhouse they uh there were bodies stacked
00:46:12.000
up inside and there was literally you know an inch of blood on the floor uh from american bodies as well
00:46:17.760
as some of the british troops that went in there but as the british are are pulling you know they're
00:46:22.880
they're they're withdrawing towards boston they start to plunder all the houses that they encounter
00:46:29.040
even you know churches they going against gage's direct orders they're they're stealing everything
00:46:35.920
pretty much in sight uh and then they're they're they're bayoneting people it's really vicious
00:46:41.200
combat on both sides there's a great story about samuel whitmore who's this 78 year old man that
00:46:47.840
you know he will not yield his house and uh he has a sword and a pistol in hand and uh you know kills
00:46:56.240
a couple british regulars the meantime is bayoneted multiple times and shot somehow survives to the
00:47:02.720
ripe old age of 96. wow um yeah no he's a hero eric prince talked about that the other day uh and by the
00:47:11.200
way i think he was the same age as trump is today when he grabbed those two pistols from the french and
00:47:16.560
indian war uh before i let you go patrick k o'donnell i want to thank you so much in this
00:47:21.520
um tom and thomas gage in the british if they and these are some of the toughest guys in the world
00:47:29.120
they knew when uh the sun set that night that they had a fight on their hands everything that led up to
00:47:35.600
this they realized then that was a major military uh encounter in the in the in the americans were
00:47:42.080
going to give as good as they got uh folks that is a year uh before the um uh over a year before
00:47:50.400
um the expeditionary force came to new york city right after the fourth of july as patrick and i
00:47:56.160
always talk about that amazing the amazing battle series of battles there o'donnell i need people to
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know where to go to get all your writings you will patrick k o'donnell puts you in the moment at the
00:48:08.560
time this is not like written hundreds of years later he puts you in the eyes of the combatants
00:48:14.720
at the time that's always such a great combat historian whether it's korea whether it's the
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iraq war but particularly these books you've done of the revolution you can't put down so and and
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you're unvanquished on the civil war coming from god's country of the commonwealth of virginia can't
00:48:29.040
be better um and plus it's got my uh it's got uh what fremont it's got one most prominent women
00:48:36.160
in american history is one of the stars fremont's wife um mrs fremont i love her she was so in
00:48:44.080
lincoln's face he said he put her on the train back to missouri's i don't want to see that one
00:48:48.320
again um where do people go to get your writing sir to get the unvanquished or any or the
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indispensables which this this story is in or the washington's immortals go to barnes and noble or
00:49:00.720
amazon my website is patrick o'donnell.com email me or uh at combat historian on getter as well as uh
00:49:12.160
uh x is where you can find me and i've got a lot of book signings and things like that you can come
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visit me i love meeting everybody that's part of the posse so you know great getting to know
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everybody over the last uh 12 or 13 years and the posse turns out big for your book signs three
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and 400 people uh patrick o'donnell we love you brother the whole audience loves you love you too
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thank you so much for being on here great job kicking off kicking off it's an honor thank you
00:49:37.600
always an honor to have you on here paul revere's ride tonight tomorrow for two hours we're going to be
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at lexington we're going to take lexington and concord of 250 and tie it to today and why you're the
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equivalent of the sons of liberty and how you from every patriot's grave back to 1775 you're absolutely
00:49:57.680
connected okay we're going to leave you with something very special we used to play this a
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couple of years ago during the beginning of the uh search of the uh stolen election of 2020 remember
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that in those dark days of 2021 here we have a poem written by emerson it was commemorated they were
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putting a stone at concord bridge in uh memorial memory of uh of in the first 100th anniversary uh
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we're going to take a uh we'll see you tomorrow morning at 10 o'clock a.m we're going to be live we're
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going to leave you now with the concord hymn this is the uh the poem set to music
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And time the ruined bridge has swept down the dark stream with seaward breeze.
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On this green bank, by this soft stream, we set today a golden stone that memory may their deep redeem.
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